Newbie in futures here: What happened to Cotton the 20/06/2014?

Discussion in 'Commodity Futures' started by Hiperfly, Jun 26, 2014.

  1. Hiperfly

    Hiperfly

    I just saw the chart and it went from $88 to $77 with a huge gap, why was that?

    Thanks!
     
  2. emg

    emg

  3. Welp, my system gave me a sell signal on the 17th which I got out of on the 18th. I sold out of the short upswing that began on the 12th. Of course in hindsight, I wish I would've simultaneously gone short while cashing out my long position.
     
  4. Hiperfly

    Hiperfly

    Nobody? I thought this just has to do with deadline or some other weird stuff of futures, I dunno... :D

    Any fundamental news? Anything? :mad:
     
  5. tiddlywinks

    tiddlywinks

  6. Hiperfly

    Hiperfly

    This is the only info that matches the date and even though i prefer to thinkg that my ToS platform had some kind of problem, or I am missing any more news :confused::confused:
     
  7. In my humble opinion, you're worried about the wrong thing. This is precisely why I trade price action, because moves will occur before the fundamental reason is known to the public...but if you can read price, you can see that move occur in real-time.
     
  8. Maverick74

    Maverick74

    It's very simple. We rolled off the July to the Dec contract. July is in delivery now and is still trading at 80 to 81. Dec is around 74. The answer to this question could have been solved through deduction by observing the cotton ETF (BAL) which had no such drop.
     
  9. Cut him some slack. I made the same kind of mistakes when I first started too and I bet you did as well.

    OP, depending on how your charting service charts the roll from one month to another it can appear you have a large drop when really nothings changed.
     
  10. Maverick74

    Maverick74

    I wasn't chiding him. I was chiding the responders who gave absurd responses.
     
    #10     Jun 27, 2014